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SIMMONS: Baseball has gone crazy with prospective rule changes

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There is enough wrong with baseball right now with pitching clocks and instant replay, with analytics and pitch counts.

But what’s happening now makes you wish you could turn the clock back to a time when baseball was simpler and maybe more beautiful.

Forcing a Golden Rule on the game is blasphemy of sorts. It has to be offensive to purists and maybe even to those who aren't.

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